Israeli progressive folk metal masters ORPHANED LAND will release their new studio album, "Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs", on January 26, 2018 via Century Media. Jens Bogren once again took over mixing and mastering duties of what turned out to be the band’s best and biggest production so far. "Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs" will ...

Cult Swedish metallers HEAVY LOAD will reunite for a series of shows in 2018, with an epic and majestic stage production. The concerts will celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the release of the band's first LP and will take place on the following dates and venues: Apr. 28 - Keep It True XXI - Lauda-Königshofen, ...

According to The Pulse Of Radio, Robert Plant has scored a Top 20 hit with his new album, "Carry On", marking his third release with his touring band, SENSATIONAL SPACE SHIFTERS. During a chat with The New York Times, he revealed that the album was dictated by the sound he and the band ...

PHIL CAMPBELL AND THE BASTARD SONS (formerly PHIL CAMPBELL'S ALL STARR BAND), the band featuring MOTÖRHEAD guitarist Phil Campbell alongside his sons Todd, Dane and Tyla, plus vocalist Neil Starr, has announced the details of its upcoming debut album. Titled "The Age Of Absurdity", the disc was recorded at Rockfield Studios and Longwave Studios in ...

Rob Halford says that JUDAS PRIEST's upcoming album, "Firepower", contains some of the band's strongest material to date. The British heavy metal legends have spent the last few months in the studio recording the follow-up to 2014's "Redeemer Of Souls" with the band's longtime collaborator Tom Allom, acclaimed British knob-twiddler Andy Sneap (MEGADETH, EXODUS, TESTAMENT, ...

Marilyn Manson bassist Jeordie White, who performs under the name Twiggy Ramirez, has responded to accusations of rape leveled at him by his former girlfriend, Jessicka Addams of the riot grrrl band JACK OFF JILL. In an October 20 Facebook post, Addams detailed the physical and psychological abuse that White allegedly put her ...

METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett has recorded a guest appearance on the upcoming album from MICHAEL SCHENKER FEST, the project led by legendary German axeman Michael Schenker. Schenker told Metal Discovery that Hammett laid down his part at a studio in Hawaii with producer Michael Voss. "Kirk, you know, he's a Michael Schenker fan ...

According to TMZ, Chester Bennington has left his entire estate to his widow and his six children. The LINKIN PARK singer, who tragically took his own life in July, left his retirement account to Talinda Bennington and divided the remaining assets among his six kids through the Chester And Talinda Bennington Family Trust. ...

Rob Zombie's next film as a director is reportedly a sequel to his 2005 hit "The Devil's Rejects". According to Bloody Disgusting, Zombie is definitely moving ahead with writing and directing the movie, although he has yet to confirm or deny the report himself. "The Devil's Rejects" was Zombie's second film and arguably ...

Music Theories Recordings/Mascot Label Group has announced the signing of '90s progressive metal adventurers GALACTIC COWBOYS. The band's reunited original lineup — lead vocalist Ben Huggins, drummer/vocalist Alan Doss, guitarist/vocalist Dane Sonnier and vocalist/bassist Monty Colvin — will release its first album in seventeen years, "Long Way Back To The Moon", on November 17. They ...